I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze.… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been… — Lewis William Walt Copy Share Image
“There was a black marine called Philly Dog who'd been a gang lord in Philadelphia and who was looking forward to some… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It’s no surprise that many later analysts, in judging these and other actions and statements by Diem in the course of 1955,… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any… — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war. — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I went into Vietnam as a young man like John Wayne, because that's what my grandfather told me to do. But after… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic… — Jeannie Mai Copy Share Image
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get… — Jim McDermott Copy Share Image
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop… — Taboo Copy Share Image